I was getting ready to face them all, they were 10 in total including Rick.
Seeing me getting vigilant, he laughed amusingly and said applauding, "You know you won't win against us, so why even bother? Let me give you an offer instead, come and join me, you are strong and might become an S-ranker someday, I can't lose you this easily. If you surrender yourself and join us, then I will let you live. What do you say?"
He reached out his hand giving me an offer. Joining him probably means he has already betrayed Hunter's association.
Hunter association is currently the strongest force in our world, many powerful hunters in the world are registered under it. There aren't many other forces that could compare to it.
One is the 'Forgefire Guild', a direct competitor of the president, and another the is 'Black Serpent Guild', a notorious assassin guild that also runs the biggest black market on Earth. They mostly deal with murder and looting the hunters inside the dungeon and tower.
"I assume you are telling me to join 'Black Serpent Guild'," I said looking directly into his eyes.
An amused smile appeared on his face after hearing me, "How did you know? It could be 'Forgefire guild' as well..."
"Not a chance, I have met the guild leader of 'Forgefire guild', she isn't someone to use such underhanded tricks."
"As always, you are sharp."
"Even a child could tell this if they use their mind."
"Very well, then. If you will join us and become my woman, I will let you live and your family. Your brother is dead leaving a weak wife and two weak children, your older niece is in the hunter's academy. I know all of it... you should know what to choose right?"
He threatened me using my family, but even if I die, I know the president won't let anyone harm my family. I trust her completely.
"You already know what my answer is gonna be right?"
"Sigh, stubborn as always, well, no worries, if you can't join us, then you will die... attack her."
Saying so, he instructed everyone to attack me.
All of them used their ability at once and attacked me. It was a group of people specially selected to attack a dungeon.
It included 4 attackers, 3 defenders, and 2 healers. The 4 attackers immediately launched themselves at me using their abilities, one turned his body into rock and threw a punch at me, which I dodged with my incredible speed, predicting my next location another one threw his kick at me engulfing his legs into flames for more energy which I easily deflected with my ability Gale manipulation and gave him a kick on his chest.
He went flying and slammed on the walls. Then I noticed a girl chanting something, she was the trickiest in this group, her ability was 'Curse'. She can put a curse on somebody and make their stats decrease for a while.
She was chanting the slow curse, trying to decrease my speed, I immediately threw my spear at her using my ability Gale manipulation, making it travel faster and directly hit her, but one of the 3 defenders came in front and used a shield to stop the spear, but it wasn't enough and the spear broke the shield piercing his chest.
He fell to the ground on his knees, and the 2 healers immediately got on their work to heal him. I used this moment of distraction and unleashed one of my strongest attacks at them, called the gale serpent.
At first, I manipulated the air around me making them more violent, trying to blur their vision, and gave the wind the form of a serpent, rotating its tip making it a perfect counter to the shield.
"She is using gale serpent, everyone be careful..."
The remaining two defenders knew what I was about to use, and covered up everyone inside their shield, they used their strongest shield that made the invisible barrier turn into a dark shield.
But the attack didn't come. Rick was watching all of this and didn't move an inch from his step.
He knew what I was planning but he didn't care about them dying at all, he was aware of people whom he could easily replace.
Sensing the attack wasn't coming, they released their shield for a while, and that was the perfect time for me to attack them, I poured half of my mana into that attack and launched a massive storm serpent at them, it easily broke their barrier and every one of them were pierced with it, bleeding from their guts.
I threw myself forward and grabbed my spear, ready to face the last remaining one Rick.
But instead of attacking me, he laughed wholeheartedly as if he was enjoying all of this.
"Hahahaha, good, good. You never fail to amuse me Celestina, but today... you are going to die."
"Bind."
Then I heard a voice behind me from Rick. A woman clad in a purple robe with a serpent embroidery on it appeared from his back. It was a member of the 'Black Serpent Guild'.
The moment her voice fell, I could feel my body unable to move, as if it was bound by an invisible rope.
"You might have guessed already, she is a curse user as well. All of you get up and heal yourself... 9 of you can't even defeat a single girl."
The girl with the purple robe went and helped all of them to heal, and just a few minutes after all of them were back to their feet as if nothing happened.
"Now, you can die peacefully. I will take great care of your family... hahaha"
Saying so, he slashed his sword at me, my spear was only B-rank and his sword was A-rank. It easily cut through my spear cutting my chest in the process.
The bind was released from my body and I fell on the ground covered my blood. Getting attacked by an A-rank weapon could kill anyone easily, even S-rankers will be killed with that weapon.
My vision was getting blurry, I couldn't understand why couldn't I just stay at home. Along with my regrets, I faintly heard some noises of something getting broken. The sound intensified with the fleeting moment and a loud *Bang* sounded in the dungeon.
A figure in a black outfit appeared in my blurry vision. I couldn't help but think that it was Evan. But how could he come here...
Forgive me, Evan, Auntie can't protect you any longer...
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